Best practices and current concepts in the field of developmental and behavioral pediatrics.

Colby College presents the twentieth annual Childhood Development and Behavior Conference, a two-day program for professionals working with children and teens with emotional, behavioral, developmental, and mental health problems. The program will be particularly useful for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, social workers, teachers and counselors. Strategies that work in the home, school and community to help children and families experience their world as a better place will be provided.

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Healthy Attachment: NICU and Beyond

Integrated Care for Our Most Vulnerable Children

This conference addresses many of the potential obstacles to forming healthy attachments including neurological differences in infants and substance abuse by parents. Physical therapists, physicians, social workers and psychologists will find this conference relevant as providers from medical, rehabilitation and mental health backgrounds will be presenting state of the art information from theory through practice.

As a result of attending this conference, participants will:

understand attachment theory and treatment for neurologically vulnerable children and their parents

be aware of the roles of physical therapy, medicine and behavioral health in optimizing outcomes for infants who begin life needing intensive care

be able to describe recent advances in early intervention, population health and advocacy

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Keynote Presenters:

Nancy Suchman, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Yale University School of MedicineDepartment of Psychology and Child Study Center

Dr. Suchman has been funded over the past 20 years by the National Institutes of Health to develop and evaluate attachment-based interventions for mothers with chronic substance use and psychiatric problems. In two randomized clinical trials, she has evaluated Mothering from the Inside Out (MIO), the first intervention for substance abusing parents that targets the capacity to recognize and regulate strong negative emotional states associated with relapse and maladaptive parenting. In a third ongoing randomized trial, Dr. Suchman is training addiction counselors to deliver MIO with fidelity in community-based settings in order to test MIO's efficacy in the real world. Dr. Suchman is also collaborating internationally with colleagues in South Africa and Finland to examine the benefits of MIO for at-risk parents in diverse cultures. Dr. Suchman is the Director of Addiction and Family Research at Yale University School of Medicine and is a Licensed Psychologist in Connecticut.

Patrick J. Brice, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, Gallaudet University

Patrick J. Brice earned his Ph.D. in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1983. He has taught at Gallaudet University since 1984, first in the Department of Counseling, and for the past 21 years as professor in the Department of Psychology. His main area of research is parent-child relationships, particularly parent-child attachment and the factors affecting the development of secure attachment. He has also published an presented on learning disabilities in deaf children and adults, assessment of deaf children and adults, executive functioning, as well as attachment styles in deaf children and adults. He served as the director of clinical training for the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Gallaudet from 2000 to 2013. Most importantly, he and his wife have three phenomenal kids who continue to teach him the essence of human development.

The Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center:

The Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center at MaineGeneral Medical
Center provides a wide array of top-quality evaluation and treatment services
for children and families. The center is committed to an interdisciplinary
model of care, and services are comprehensive and trauma-informed. Patients are seen at Thayer Center for Health, 149 North Street, in Waterville and the Ballard Center, 6 East Chestnut Street, in Augusta.

Colby College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Colby College is approved by the Maine Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing professional education activities for licensed psychologists and psychological examiners. Psychologists and psychological examiners who attend this program may earn up to 12 hours of continuing professional education credit.

CME and ME Psychology credit is issued with certificates on the last day of the program. C.E.U. credit will be awarded through Colby's office of the Registrar as an official transcript and will be mailed to the registrant. Please allow 8-10 weeks to process.

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Program Schedule Classes will be held in the air-conditioned Diamond Building on the Colby campus.